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Students play a game to model how the immune system works. In this health and wellness lesson, the teacher explains how the immune system works, then students play a game of tag trying to stay away from germs, viruses, and bacteria and being rescued by white blood cells, antibiotics, and villi.

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the immune system, germs, viruses

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germs, immune system, virus, science
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Grade
1st - 5th
Subjects
Science
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Simulation
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